Heinrich Thorbecke

Heinrich Thorbecke (March 14, 1837 Meiningen - January 3, 1890 Mannheim) was a German Arabic scholar. His studies were directed mainly to the poetry of the Bedouin and the history of Arabic.

Biography

He studied at Munich and Leipzig. He was appointed professor at Heidelberg (1873) and at Halle (1875).

Works

• Antarah, ein vorislamitischer Dichter (Life of Antarah, the Pre-Islamite Poet, 1867)
• Al-Harīri's Durrat-al-gawwas (1871)
• Al-A'schā's Lobgedicht auf Mahammed (Al Ashâ's Song of Praise to Mohammed, 1875)
• Ibn Duraid's Kitāb al-malāhin (1882)
• Die Mufad-dali-jāt (1885)
• Mihail Sabbag's Grammatik der arabischen Umgangssprache in Syrien und Aegypten (M. Sabbâg's Grammar of Conversational Arabic in Syria and Egypt, 1886)

Notes

References

•  "Thorbecke, Heinrich". New International Encyclopedia. 1905. 
•  "Thorbecke, Heinrich". Collier's New Encyclopedia. 1921.  This source gives 1887 as the date of his appointment to Halle and doesn't mention Heidelberg.

External links

• Adalbert Merx (1894), "Thorbecke, Andreas Heinrich", Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB) (in German) 38, Leipzig: Duncker & Humblot, pp. 115–117